UK hate-crimes surge in top Brexit areas: report

A surge in anti-immigrant hate crimes after the U.K.’s EU referendum was particularly pronounced in areas of the country that strongly voted Leave, local media reports.

Figures obtained by the Independent under freedom of information rules from local police forces’ databases show significant spikes in hate crimes in the most Euroskeptic areas.

Lincolnshire, where 75 percent of people voted to quit the EU — the highest percentage in the U.K. — saw a 191 percent increase in hate crimes. The local police force recorded 42 race- and religion-motivated incidents in the week of the EU referendum and 64 such crimes the week after, compared to 22 during the week corresponding to the EU referendum in 2015.

The pattern was repeated in other Brexit heartlands such as Kent, which recorded a pro-Leave vote of nearly 60 percent, and a leap of 143 percent in hate crimes in the week following the referendum.

The most common hate crime was public harassment, with police also recording dozens of physical assaults, some of which resulted in actual bodily harm.

The news comes alongside data showing an overall rise in race-related hate crimes across the U.K., including reports of groups of people demanding passers-by prove they can speak English, Swastika graffiti across the country and reports of assaults, arson attacks and racial abuse.

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Stef

Integration? Coming to a town near YOU.

Posted on 8/1/16 | 11:49 AM CET

FierEuropeen

I already knew, but after brexit the english are blatantly showing their true colors of enraged and irrational animals full of hatred against the Europeans. I am so happy that we got rid of this english trash. The EU should not make any trade deal with these gangsters.

Posted on 8/1/16 | 12:45 PM CET

meh

How could we not love Europeans like you Fiery. The definition of a keyboard warrior.

Posted on 8/1/16 | 1:05 PM CET

pete

‘Asylum seeker’ stabs Belgian priest who let him in to shower, but refused to give cash
Published time: 1 Aug, 2016 07:04
Edited time: 1 Aug, 2016 07:57….A Belgian priest has been attacked by a man who claimed to be an asylum seeker. The perpetrator first asked Father Jos Vanderlee if he could take a shower and then demanded money. When the priest said no, the man stabbed him.
The incident took place in the small town of Lanaken, Limburg province, on the Belgium-Netherlands border on Sunday. The man who presented himself as an asylum seeker knocked on the door of Vanderlee’s home, asking for a shower and help.

“He said he was going to ask asylum in the Netherlands,” a spokesman for the Limburg prosecutor, Bruno Coppin, later said, as cited by Het Laatste Nieuws newspaper

Posted on 8/1/16 | 2:01 PM CET

Yrjö Virolainen

ARGH THOSE RACISTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Politico propaganda at its finest 🙂

Posted on 8/1/16 | 5:38 PM CET

Maria Valentina Umer

Racist attacks against EU citizens living and working in the UK show the premordial mood among the Brexiteers. These types are, themselves, the victims of the failed English politics. The same types, young men with no education and no prospects, who turn out as hooligans at soccer games.

Britain is sick, regarding its young men, for decades. And, of course, these young men, uneducated and without prospects, are easy prey for the Brexiteer British politicians like Nigel Farage and Boris Jonhson.

Britain is sick! It has been for decades in a social sense!. Britain has all been about banksters in the City, with which all mainstream polititians meddled for their own personal advantage. Cameron´s involvement with his father in tax-havens, reported internationally, shows excatly the mentality of GB, Eton-boy politicians.

And these bankster GB politicians criticise the EU? Oh, go wash your dog! Your rabid tax-havens is all you want! This whole GB is a branch of Wall Street, economically.

Good riddance to the UK!

Posted on 8/1/16 | 7:44 PM CET

Maria Valentina Umer

As the one or the other commentator posted, the Brits will be be next asylum seekers in the 27-EU. Tit for Tat should be the response!

They are already scrambling like crazy, the proletarian Brexiteers. Your Bosses in the British Establishment have long brought their millions of Pounds into the British offshore oases.

And these proletarian Brits rant against the EU?

Posted on 8/1/16 | 8:47 PM CET

Maria Valentina Umer

The Brexiteers are deeply insecure. They don´t know what they let themselves into. But the proleterians and economically- insecure folk in any country were always responsible for the worst: naziism, nationalism, and religious fundamentalism.

I never thought the Uk would succumb to such!

Posted on 8/1/16 | 8:57 PM CET

Evan

Now all we need is the hate crime stats of the immigrants to balance it out. Robberies, rapes, pick-pockets, sexual harassment, honor killing, no-go zones, burglaries, fraud, you know hate against the society that takes them in. Conspicuous in their absence in all the hate crime debates.